Chips. The chips in this bag and the chips on this rack. I know it sounds like i agimmick. Maybe it is. But if you understand the zeitgeist of this market, if you really want to get it, these two types of chips tell you a great deal of the drama going on in the stock market and in the entire country. So on a good day when the dow advanced 130 points, s p gained 1. 03 , nasdaq jumped 1. 51 hallelujah allow me to explain. Lets start with these chips, the semiconductors. Right now theres a veritable feeding frenzy for the chipmakers. Investors cant eat just one. The etfs are going crazy. Buyers are chomping down on this stuff like piranhas in the amazon basin. Nvidia, obviously the not disputed leader of the group is up 87 year to date and 757 from its lows just 17 months 757 , people. On the other hand, though, this bag of chips is under assault. The price of a bag of potato chips has risen 45 while the cost of producing them has increased by about 40 over the last few years. But unlike